A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing / edited by Hanna Falk Erhag, Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson, Therese Rydberg Sterner, Ingmar Skoog.
This open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing – one’s individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value – from a multidisciplinary approach. With for the first time in history there being more people in the world aged 60 years and...
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| Superior document: | International Perspectives on Aging, 31 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Springer,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International Perspectives on Aging,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (254 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. The AgeCap conceptual framework for research on capability in ageing
- Chapter 3. The ICECAP-O measure
- Chapter 4. The capability approach in epidemiological studies
- Chapter 5 – Good self-rated health as an indicator of personal capability in old age
- Chapter 6. Capability in research on cognition and well-being in ageing and retirement
- Chapter 7. The neurochemistry of Alzheimer’s disease: one of the most common causes of reduced capability in the adult population
- Chapter 8. The capability approach in research on ageing well at home for frail older people
- Chapter 9. eHealth literacy and capability in the context of the pandemic crisis
- Chapter 10. Increasing people’s capabilities by using design thinking in the decision-making process
- Chapter 11. The capability approach in social work with older people
- Chapter 12. A historical perspective on ageing and capability
- Chapter 13. The capabilities approach and the concepts of self-determination, legal competence and human dignity in social services for older people
- Chapter 14. Invisible or powerful? Ageing in a mediatised society
- Chapter 15. System and life-course perspectives on capability to work and capability through work
- Chapter 16. Organisational capability for delayed retirement
- Chapter 17. Capability and political participation among ageing populations.